Let’s face it folks – if you’ve gotta live in a country going through chaos, you might as well have a bit of fun on the way down. One of the few things that perks me up each morning is seeing headlines like “Trump Supporters Worried About Losing Their Federal Jobs” or “Republican Voters Worried They Might Not Get Their Social Security Checks”. Well folks, when Trump was promising chaos in the run-up to the election, this is what he was talking about. All these federal departments getting turned over and eviscerated is exactly what he said he’d do. Supposedly, this is what you all wanted!
If you’re a multi-millionaire and you voted for Trump, I get it. It seems like a really good idea. If you’re working class, or even crazier, dependent on government aid, and you voted for Trump, holy crap… you were swindled.
I hope eventually our country gets back on the track to being sane. It’s a shame that it’s much, much, much easier to tear down things than it is to create them. I look forward to the mid-terms and I hope the Democrats get their heads out of their asses, because we could really use the help. In the meantime, I’ll be drinking up all those delicious “Trump supporter tears” and not feeling bad at all.
I don’t know if this is relevant, but I and many others feel basically this way about Americans as a whole. Gonna be laughing at (or at least not crying too much for) y’all as we’re all drafted into WWIII.
As a US citizen this is deeply relevant.
Our government has been swinging its dick around worldwide for decades absolutely fucking shit up while American citizens blithely move along in ignorance while it’s all happening and claiming we spread “freedom” and “democracy” when we have never done any such thing. We, through our government, have used Economic Shock Treatment to dominate and control.
It’s literally not the rest of the world’s job to separate us into “good Americans” versus “bad Americans.” The Ugly American never left.
Everything happening here will have knock-on effects for the rest of the world. It’s up to us to clean up our own damn mess.
I am waiting for US refugees to be shocked at how few countries will want to take us in. They don’t have the time, money, or willingness to sort through the refugees only looking for the good ones.
Especially because the first people to demand to be helped in this country are always the ones who voted to not get help to begin with. They vote against their own needs endlessly and nobody wants to risk bringing in such selfish unstable people. Easier to just say “No American refugees accepted” since the Trumpers will literally be the first to run away because they can’t face reality or accept their own responsibility in the current reality. They are always the first to run from the consequences of their own actions. Facing what they’ve done would make them reckon with the idea that they’re not a good person, and that kind of self-reflection would cause Ego Death in them, so they avoid it at all costs.